Example sentences of "[prep] it for a couple " in BNC.
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1 | But as I say he 's never done any of it for a couple of days . |
2 | It wo n't be like it for a couple of years . |
3 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
4 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
5 | She stared at it for a couple of minutes , then , with a prolonged sigh , began to take them out and put them back into the cupboards and drawers . |
6 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |